Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Head of a Man with a Shaved Head
Description
Metagraywacke
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A stone bust depicting a bald male figure with a damaged nose, mounted on a wooden base.
The artifact is a carved stone bust showing a bald male figure, likely a depiction of a high-ranking individual or deity. The bust is mounted on a wooden base and exhibits some surface wear, notably a damaged nose. The craftsmanship suggests attention to anatomical details typical of ancient Egyptian sculpture.
royal
unknown
fragmentary
Materials
stonewood
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116389574 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 2021.41.152 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 329932 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.